susie steiner – Cannonball Read 17

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Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner

February 10, 2023 by Elizabeth Leave a Comment

This is the first in a series about DS Manon Bradshaw of the Cambridgeshire PD. For those who don’t read/watch way too much British murder of the week stories, DS is detective sergeant. Manon is an unhappily single 39 year old, estranged from her father and sister, but very good at her job. When Edith, a young Cambridge University student from a wealthy family, disappears shortly before Christmas leaving an open front door, blood splatter, and overturned furniture, it doesn’t look good. Although Manon is […]

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Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner

July 28, 2022 by esme Leave a Comment

Scandal – a very British scandal, stiff upper lip, what will the neighbors say? I stumbled across Susie Steiner, the author of the DS Manon Bradshaw series, when I read of her death, July 2nd, in the Guardian (and, by the way, this is an enjoyable obituary, if an obituary can be said to be ‘enjoyable’! https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jul/13/susie-steiner-obituary). Steiner was a former journalist who lived with retinitis pigmentosa and succumbed, at the very premature age of 51, to brain cancer. The obituary notes that Ms. Steiner […]

All the Memories

Missing, Presumed by Susie Steiner

March 25, 2020 by Jake Leave a Comment

This one got recommended to me by a lit critic. She asked for folks to submit what we liked to read to her via Twitter and she replied with suggestions. When I said mysteries, she came up with this one, along with Tana French (who I love) and “Robert Galbraith” (who I do not love). I figured she got this based on it being part of the contemporary female-written English thriller/mystery that doubles as a character study but what the heck. It was free on […]

Surprised Me — In a Good Way

June 21, 2018 by Tragic Sandwich Leave a Comment

Manon Bradshaw is smart, competent, and lonely. She’s a Detective Sargeant in Cambridgeshire, and while she is having exactly the level of career success she looked for, she spends her off hours trying to build relationships from Internet dates she doesn’t really want to be on. Some of her actions made me think, “Urgh! Don’t do it!” But her actions are what a lot of people do, so it rang true in a way that can be hard to capture on a page. When a […]

Missing a Title

July 5, 2017 by Rachie3879 Leave a Comment

Susie Steiner’s Missing, Presumed is the first in a new series of mystery novels about Manon Bradshaw, a British detective with wild curls, laser focus and a complete lack of a personal life. I mention the curls not because I think it’s a particularly important character trait, but because it seems to be referenced more than any other identifying characteristic. Manon has trouble sleeping; to soothe herself to sleep she listens to a ‘borrowed’ police radio – not the lullaby of a normal well-adjusted adult. […]

Gone without a trace

January 25, 2017 by yesknopemaybe Leave a Comment

3.5 stars. Missing, Presumed starts with Detective Sergeant Manon Bradshaw at yet another lackluster internet date. It’s an interesting way to start a mystery novel. I think it was meant to be cringe-funny, but I only found myself cringing. I think Steiner was probably trying to introduce us to our main character outside of work so we’d get a broader picture of who she is. Manon’s someone without a lot of close ties and so lonely that she listens to her police scanner for fun. […]

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